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▲ TRAINING FOR SPACE SPACE
Since the 1960s, NASA has used huge water
tanks to mimic the weightlessness of space, mostly
at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.

1979 1992 2003 2014

ESA debuts its Ariane 1 Russia establishes Japan’s space agencies unite as The Indian Space Research
rocket, and soon becomes Roskosmos, an agency that the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Organization (ISRO) reaches
a major launch provider unites the many different Agency (JAXA). Other national Mars on its first attempt, with
for the commercial design bureaus of the former space agencies exist in India (1969), its Mangalyaan space probe.
satellite industry. Soviet space program. Canada (1989), and China (1993).

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